Pats have trouble playing on grass?

[SHOWTIME15]

Grass stain: Do Patriots have problems away from turf?

3-9 on grass surfaces since 2012. Of course all these games were on the road.

Interesting article. Thoughts?

 

[Gronk]

Looks like more of a coincidence of timing and quality of opponents to me.

Pats record is so skewed due to how good they've been, particularly at home, for 15 years that there may be a correlation by the pure numbers but I don't see it. Lies, damn lies, and statistics as they say.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Chandler Jones doesn't have any trouble playing on grass

 

[Gronk]

Nah even he prefers the synthetic stuff

 

[FourierSeries]

Looks like more of a coincidence of timing and quality of opponents to me.

Pats record is so skewed due to how good they've been, particularly at home, for 15 years that there may be a correlation by the pure numbers but I don't see it. Lies, damn lies, and statistics as they say.

Those were my thoughts as well when I first read the article.

Correlation =/= causation

You'd have to go look at the film of each individual game and point out exactly how and why they struggle on grass in order to prove causation. You'd have to somehow isolate that from other variables as well.

 

[Tuck]

Grass stain: Do Patriots have problems away from turf?

3-9 on grass surfaces since 2012. Of course all these games were on the road.

Interesting article. Thoughts?

The road record on grass tells us nothing without knowing what the road record is when they play on turf.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if its worse on grass. Anyone have the answer?

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Grass stain: Do Patriots have problems away from turf?

3-9 on grass surfaces since 2012. Of course all these games were on the road.

Interesting article. Thoughts?

7 of those games were in Denver and Miami, where we've had problems for other reasons. The record is about .500 for the other games - still low, but very small sample to judge things on.

 

[Froob]

Think it's more of a coincidence than anything, the line wouldn't have suddenly become good on field turf.

 

[Gronk]

rough count has them at 20-14 on road since 2012
minus the 3-9
that's 17-5

 

[TinhWoodhead]

so the grass is not greener for the pats